Volume 8, Issue 2

Original Research Article

1. Article

   Is Vitamin A Deficiency a Growing Concern? A Pan-India Retrospective Study of 15,000 Individuals

   Rajkumar Kushawaha, Kallathikumar Kallathiyan, Sandhya Iyer, Prachi Sinkar

   pp. 44–47 · DOI: 10.5530/ajbls.2019.8.8 · Published 30 August 2019

   Introduction:Vitamin A deficiency is a very huge clinical burden; both subclinical as well as clinical. In the Indian scenario, it also forms a major aspect of the broad micronutrient deficiency. Absence of symptoms does…

2. Article

   Chemical Composition and Antibacterial Activity of Essential oil of Mentha longifolia Leaf from Albaha Area Southern Saudi Arabia

   Bader Omer Burham, Osman Ali Osman, Azhari Abdelhafeedh Mohammed Nour

   pp. 48–52 · DOI: 10.5530/ajbls.2019.8.9 · Published 30 August 2019

   The essential oil obtained by hydrodistillation from the leaves of Saudi Arabia nativeMentha longifolia(Lamiaceae) was analyzed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry GC/MS. Forty six compounds were analysed, it was cha…

3. Article

   Zoochemical Composition of Selected Sea Stars Collected from the Coastal Waters of Carmen, Agusan Del Norte, Philippines

   Angelo Mark P. Walag, Romeo M. Del Rosario, Oliva P. Canencia

   pp. 53–62 · DOI: 10.5530/ajbls.2019.8.10 · Published 30 August 2019

   The marine ecosystem is home to 34 of 36 phyla in the animal kingdom. It is for this reason that substantial amount of marine-derived natural products with potential medicinal and therapeutic applications have been descr…

4. Article

   Evaluation of Antibacterial Activity of Crude Aqueous, Ethanolic and Methanolic Leaf Extracts of Piper retrofractum Vahl. and Piper betle L.

   Emily Mesa Jamelarin, Lloyd Ongpauco Balinado

   pp. 63–67 · DOI: 10.5530/ajbls.2019.8.11 · Published 30 August 2019

   Piper retrofractum and P. betle are commonly used as medicinal plants in the Philippines to treat several ailments, including headache, fever, stomachache, cough, cuts, and wounds. To determine how effective these plants…

5. Article

   Seasonal Variation of Indoor Radon (222Ra) and Thoron (220Ra) in the Dwellings of Bathinda District of Punjab, India

   Kirandeep kaur, Manmohan Singh Heer, Rohit Mehra, H. S. Sahota

   pp. 68–75 · DOI: 10.5530/ajbls.2019.8.12 · Published 30 August 2019

   Seasonal concentrations of indoor radon and thoron have been measured in 12 villages (selecting four dwellings in each village) situated in Bathinda district of Punjab, using pin hole based twin cup dosimeters. The radon…

6. Article

   Different Methods used to Control Early Blight of Potato in Laboratory Conditions

   Salman Ahmad, Ayesha Aslam, Zafar Iqbal, Muhammad Usman Ghazanfar, Irfan Ahmad, Ejaz Ashraf, Muhamad Atiq, Waqas Raza, Muhammad Zohaib Anjum, Muhammad Asim

   pp. 76–82 · DOI: 10.5530/ajbls.2019.8.13 · Published 30 August 2019

   The present study was designed with the objective “to assess the efficacy of various fungicides, salts and natural plant extracts with different doses against A. solani”. Results revealed that lowest mycelial growth and …